I Saw Her Standing There

I Saw Her Standing There

By Lennon and McCartney-The Beatles 1963

On the Please Please Me Album

Released on 45 with I "Want to Hold Your Hand"

Riff 1            Riff 2          Riff 3
E7                 A7              B7
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Verses

1                           E7

Well she was just_ seventeen

              A7                 E7

You know what I mean_

E7

And the way she looked

                                          B7

Was way beyond compare_

      E7                       E7           A7     C

So how could'n I dance_ with another, WOOO

                   E7        B7                 E7

Oh, when I saw her standing there_

riff 4    

A7              

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2             E7

Well she looked at me_

        A7               E7

And I, I could see_

That before too long

                                  B7

I'd fall in love with her_

E7                                    A7         C

She wouldn't dance with another, WOO

       E7                    B7                   E7

Oh, when I saw her standing there_

Bridge  A7

Well my heart went boom

                                         A7

When I crossed that room_

                                     B7              A7

And I held her hand in mi-eee, __   eee_

riff 4    
A7              
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Solo
E7
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               B7                 E7
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A7                         E7             B7           E7
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     B7
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3      E7

Oh we danced through the night

               A7                            E7

And we_ held each other tight_

E7

And before too long

E7                        B7

I'd fell in love with her_

        E7                                A7        C

Now I'll never dance with another, WOO

                E7           B7                   E7

Oh, when I saw her standing there_

                A7

Well my heart went boom_

                                        A7

When I crossed that room_

                                     B7              A7

And I held her hand in mi-eee, __   ee_

      E7

Oh we danced through the night

               A7                            E7

And we_ held each other tight_

E7

And before too long

E7                        B7

I fell in love with her_

        E7                                A7        C

Now I'll never dance with another, WOO

       E7                    B7                   E7

Oh, when I saw her standing there_

        E7                    B7                   E7

Oh, when I saw her standing there_

      E7                    B7                   E7

Oh, when I saw her standing there_____^

Video

I Saw Her Standing There

Beatles

The Beatles performing I Saw Her Standing There on the Ed Sullivan Show.

Song Facts:

I Saw Her Standing There
January 31, 2016  /  Gary McKeon

The song was written primarily by Paul McCartney with the original title Seventeen. According to Beatles' biographer Mark Lewisohn McCartney hatched the idea for the song while driving home from a Beatles' gig in Southport, Lancashire on October 22nd 1962. That same night he worked out the chords on an acoustic guitar at the family home of his friend Rory Storm.

Two days later on October 24th McCartney began writing lyrics during a London trip with his then-girlfriend Celia Mortimer, who was seventeen years old at the time.  

Lennon helped McCartney finish off the lyrics; suggesting changes here and there. When Paul showed John the early lyrics She was just seventeen, never been a beauty queen, Lennon reportedly burst into laughter and so the words took a different shape.

"We were learning our skill. John would like some of my lines and not others. He liked most of what I did, but there would sometimes be a cringe line, such as, 'She was just seventeen, she'd never been a beauty queen.' John thought, 'Beauty queen? Ugh.' We were thinking of Butlins so we asked ourselves, what should it be? We came up with, 'You know what I mean.' Which was good, because you don't know what I mean." - Paul McCartney
"That's Paul doing his usual good job of producing what George Martin used to call a 'potboiler'. I helped with a couple of the lyrics." - John Lennon

RECORDING

The song was recorded in one day at Abbey Road on February 11th 1963. During this monster session the Beatles recorded 10 of the 14 songs on Please Please Me. 

McCartney counted in the track One, two, three, four!, something that is usually cut out of a finished song; but producer George Martin had the idea of keeping it on the track to give the impression it was a live performance.

The count-in comes from take 9 which Martin felt was especially spirited and spliced into take 1. The full version of take 9 was subsequently released on the Free as a Bird single in 1994. 

PERSONNEL

Paul McCartney – lead vocals, bass, handclaps
John Lennon – rhythm guitar, harmony vocals, handclaps
George Harrison – lead guitar, handclaps
Ringo Starr – drums, handclaps

RELEASE  

I Saw Her Standing There was released on the Beatles' debut album Please Please Me on March 22nd 1963 and as the B-side to the US single I Want to Hold Your Hand. The song peaked at number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100.  (http://www.beatlesbyday.com/)

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I Feel Fine “I’m so glad that she’s my little girl” By John Lennon and Paul McCartney The Beatles

I Feel Fine

“I’m so glad that she’s my little girl”

By John Lennon and Paul McCartney

The Beatles

Opening Riff (Intro)

G7

Baby's good to me, you know

She's happy as can be, you know

D

She said so

                              C                 G7

I'm in love with her and I feel fine

G7

Baby says she's mine, you know

She tells me all the time, you know

D

She said so

                        C                       G7

I'm in love with her and I feel fine

G        Bm         C                        D

I'm so glad that she's my little girl

G             Bm            C                          D

She's so glad, she's telling all the world

G7

That her baby buys her things, you know

He buys her diamond rings, you know

D

She said so

                            C                         G7

She's in love with me and I feel fine, mmm

G7

Baby says she's mine, you know

She tells me all the time, you know

D

She said so

                        C                       G7

I'm in love with her and I feel fine

G         Bm         C                       D

I'm so glad that she's my little girl

G             Bm            C                          D

She's so glad, she's telling all the world

G7

That her baby buys her things, you know

He buys her diamond rings, you know

D

She said so

                            C                        G7

She's in love with me and I feel fine

D                           C                        G7

She's in love with me and I feel fine, mmm, mmm

Outtro

New way to play G7 Chord (for closer sound)

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The backstory behind the song.

"I Feel Fine" is a song written by John Lennon (credited to Lennon–McCartney) and released in 1964 by the Beatles as the A-side of their eighth British single. The song has one of the first uses of guitar feedback in popular music

Lennon wrote the guitar riff while in the studio recording "Eight Days a Week" "I wrote 'I Feel Fine' around that riff going on in the background", he recalled. "I told them I'd write a song specially for the riff. So they said, 'Yes. You go away and do that', knowing that we'd almost finished the album Beatles for Sale. Anyway, going into the studio one morning, I said to Ringo, 'I've written this song but it's lousy'. But we tried it, complete with riff, and it sounded like an A-side, so we decided to release it just like that."Both John Lennon and George Harrison said that the riff was influenced by a riff in "Watch Your Step", a 1961 release written and performed by Bobby Parker and covered by the Beatles in concerts during 1961 and 1962.Paul McCartney said the drums on "I Feel Fine" were inspired by Ray Charles's "What'd I Say"

At the time of the song's recording, the Beatles, having mastered the studio basics, had begun to explore new sources of inspiration in noises previously eliminated as mistakes (such as electronic goofs, twisted tapes, and talk back). "I Feel Fine" marks one of the earliest examples of the use of feedback as a recording effect in popular music. Artists such as the Kinks and the Who had already used feedback live, but Lennon remained proud of the fact that the Beatles were perhaps the first group to deliberately put it on vinyl.

Structure

I Feel Fine" is written in 4/4 time with drummer Ringo Starr's R&B-influenced beat (based on the "Latin" drumming in Ray Charles's hit "What'd I Say") featured through most of the song except for the bridge, which has a more conventional backbeat. After a brief note of heavy feedback (see below), the intro begins with a distinctive arpeggiated riff which starts in D major before quickly progressing to C major and then G major, at which point the vocals begin in G. The melody, unusually, uses a major third and a minor seventh, and has been classified as Mixolydian mode. Just before the coda, Lennon's intro riff (or ostinato), is repeated with a bright sound by George Harrison on electric guitar (a Gretsch Tennessean).  The song ends with a fadeout of the G major portion of the opening riff repeated several times.

Music Video

I Feel Fine Take 5 performed by The Beatles.

The Beatles recorded I Feel Fine on 18 October 1964,in a nine-hour session

that also saw them complete Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!,

Mr Moonlight,I’ll Follow The Sun,Everybody’s Trying To Be My Baby

and Rock And Roll Music.They also taped edit pieces for the intro and ending of Eight Days A Week.

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